I'm struggling to sync my server's time (an EC2 instance in Dublin) with my local machine. I'm using sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com to sync my server's time with Ubuntu's time server. I'm then using the ...

I have googled for days before asking and I feel like I have tried everything but ntp is still not updating the time of the system automatically. I have left it running for days and still I get the ...

I moved a centos server to a new IP and now it's stuck on ntpdate synch during boot.
I just need it to boot once so I can assign the new IP.
Going back to the old IP is not an option right now.
CTL C ...

I am having a problem with the time on my VPS hosted at Rackspace. Its running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. Date commands gives a time which is 11 minutes ahead of the actual time.
I am running ntpd ...

I have a few Debian XEN virtual machines and upgraded them to wheezy(I need the 3.2 kernel for a project). Everything was okay until I rebooted on of the machines.
My current problem is, that ntpdate ...

I have a few dedicated servers and for some reason they are totally unable to mantain the time properly synchronized, every few days they start having differences of minutes in the clock. So I have to ...

I have a strange problem with one of my servers. ntpd and ntpdate fail to work, but debugging shows no errors at all. At first I thought maybe a local or network firewall was blocking UDP port 123, ...

I am running ntp update , one after one (with sec between them),
In the log i see that there is always an offset , even if update was run few sec ago.
Why is that?Is there a chance to get 0 offset?
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I managed to run ntpdate at a high priority. My initial thought is to use nice command, like:
nice -n -10 ntpdate -p 8 -u $NTP_TIME_SERVER
However, after checking the nice value of ntpdate command, ...

During testing of our configuration of Red Hat Cluster System, NTP stepped the time by 16 seconds, and soon afterwards the cluster software locked up.
ntpd[30917]: time reset -16.332117 s
I need to ...

I started ntpdate running every night as a cronjob (on two servers). And every morning I have an email telling me the outcome. On one server it's correcting by about 0.8 seconds every day, which seems ...

I have a newly installed Centos 5.2 box, everything seems working except ntpdate sync, I have done enable port 123 UDP to pass through the firewall. I have tried to use -u for unprivileged ports but ...

What are the pros and cons between these two ways to synchronize your server?
It seems to me that your server would probably not drift more than 1 second every day, so ntpdate on a crontab would be ...